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    Mansfield and me : intertexuality and the autobiographical impulse in the graphic novel : an exegesis

    Laing, Sarah

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    2016-05-26
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    Laing, S. (2016). Mansfield and me : intertexuality and the autobiographical impulse in the graphic novel : an exegesis. [An unpublished research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of] Masters of Design by Project, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand. .
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    Abstract
    This research explores the practice of intertextuality in graphic memoirs and biographies. As Graham Allen writes, “Meaning becomes something which exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and relates, moving out from the independent text into a network of textual relations. The text becomes the intertext." I have created a graphic memoir and biography employing intertextuality as a critical framework. Using Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, letters, diaries, photographs and existing biographies, I have told her story and my own. Her famous words “Oh to be a writer, a real writer” have been a touchstone as I explore how I became a “real writer” in relation to her position as an iconic New Zealand artist. In my practice and research I grapple with questions of authenticity, autobiography, and the fine line between fact and fiction. I examine the comics medium, analysing how its physiology shapes the telling of a biographical/ autobiographical story. [Allen, Graham. Intertextuality. London: Routledge, 2000. PDF.]
    Keywords:
    Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923), graphic novels, autobiographies, story telling, autofictionalography, intertextuality, authenticity, biographies
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    120307 Visual Communication Design (incl. Graphic Design), 190499 Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified
    Degree:
    Master of Design, Unitec Institute of Technology
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